https://genestogenomes.org/calvin-bridges-bringing-genes-down-to-earth/ A blog from the Genetics Society of America Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:59:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://genestogenomes.org/calvin-bridges-bringing-genes-down-to-earth/#comment-6334 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:59:36 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=4422#comment-6334 […] career and funding prospects), a chronically-ill student, and undergraduates like Sturtevant and Calvin Bridges. The latter two would soon be transformed by their modest lab projects into rockstars of the field, […]

]]> https://genestogenomes.org/calvin-bridges-bringing-genes-down-to-earth/#comment-5673 Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:25:37 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=4422#comment-5673 […] in 1916, when Calvin Bridges published his proof that genes lie on chromosomes (the first paper in the first issue of GENETICS), Bridges cited the pioneering observations of a “Miss Stevens.” He also offered sincere thanks […]

]]> https://genestogenomes.org/calvin-bridges-bringing-genes-down-to-earth/#comment-2774 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:38:22 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=4422#comment-2774 […] cover of GENETICS commemorates the journal’s 100th anniversary and the 1916 publication of Calvin Bridges’ proof that genes lie on chromosomes. The artwork was created by Alexander Cagan, a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for […]

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